Wow the silence...., So are there any other mud owners/admins Options

[Kaleisha]

out there? I'm interested to know

I meet mac user players fairly often. One way I spot them is when they ask on newbie why greet isn't working. In our mud we use greet as a way to trigger dialogue between the player and the mob. I get a few new players who pipe up and ask why greet isn't working for them. They then tell me that when they try it it's making them do the 'hi there hows it going' thing. I have to explain to them it is a universal standard trigger that is preset in savitar that is over riding their greet. Anyway it's always a fun way to spot other mac users.

But as far as admins, owners, gods etc I don't think I have actually run into any at all. I found it useful being on a mac when we were developing the code for our mud, I was able to make sure it was all working as we wanted it to from the mac point of view. Had to run a few different mac clients to make sure all the ansi was showing up correctly and the maps were displaying right. Maybe that kind of thing is not so important on a code base that has been around for a while.

So if you are a builder or whatever, what kind of problems have you had? I used to be an imm on a diku mud and they had no OLC, and I couldn't track down any kind of building client that would run on a mac. So I was basically taking the code for an existing area, reading through it all and building my area in a text file copying the code I already had. sheesh!.. never did get that area finished either *grin*

[Kaleisha]

*nods*

I think most muds whatever these days have online creation so it's no longer a hassle. Ours is fairly easy to build in, and yeah.. nice to have a tried and tested code base to work with. Ours has been created from scratch hence the reason I've had to do all the mac testing for it. But after a year or so of running we've ironed out all those creases. I still shudder when I recall the full page ansi colour map incident, it was horrendous.. looked like a xmas tree on acid in savitar.

Anyway so nice to read a forum where people aren't asking how to set up zmud scripts. I tend to yap away even when no one is listening, so expect more spammage.

Can't recall if I ever tried playing a mush or not. I remember one place someone persuaded me to try where people were fingering me! and page was like a message command? (I feel so dense here, really) anyway the whole kitty girl and vampire lords running around wanting to cyber really put me off.. seriously why is every female (or guy playing female) in these things a kitty girl.. freaky